http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=COMPACK COMPACK - Revision history 2026-04-11T13:37:06Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=COMPACK&diff=46469&oldid=prev Jsummers at 15:25, 22 December 2023 2023-12-22T15:25:05Z <p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 15:25, 22 December 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 35:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 35:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Software ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Software ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''COMPACK:''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>If the documentation is to be believed, there were at least six versions of COMPACK: 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.0, and 5.1. 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It was developed by W. J. Collis and Prominence Computer Services, and distributed as shareware. It compresses [[MS-DOS EXE|EXE]] files (to EXE), and [[DOS executable (.com)|COM]] files (to COM).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''COMPACK''' is an executable compression utility for DOS. It was developed by W. J. Collis and Prominence Computer Services, and distributed as shareware. 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color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''COMPACK''' is an executable compression utility for DOS. 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color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 00:27, 1 October 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>** [http://cd.textfiles.com/pdos9606/ARCHIVER/EXECOMP/CPK45.ZIP CPK45.ZIP] (pre-installed)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>** [http://cd.textfiles.com/pdos9606/ARCHIVER/EXECOMP/CPK45.ZIP CPK45.ZIP] (pre-installed)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/cpk51.zip COMPACK v5.1] (1993)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/cpk51.zip COMPACK v5.1] (1993)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; 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font-size: smaller;"><div>'''COMPACK''' is an executable compression utility for DOS. It was developed by W. J. Collis and Prominence Computer Services, and distributed as shareware. It compresses [[MS-DOS EXE|EXE]] and [[DOS executable (.com)|COM]] files.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''COMPACK''' is an executable compression utility for DOS. It was developed by W. J. Collis and Prominence Computer Services, and distributed as shareware. 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